ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (Dave Ihnat, Chicago, IL) (03/25/84)
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From uucp Fri Mar 23 23:28 EST 1984
>From dbaker Fri Mar 23 22:28 CST 1984 remote from nwuxd
To: ihuxx!ignatz
Subject: please post
Status: R
Dave,
Since they're still imposing the posting ban would you please
post this to net.sources. With a note to net.news.b that this
fixes postnews not playing the appropriate message. You may
wish to test it before posting since I generalized after the
plugged by ability to post.
Thanks,
Darryl
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: '@(#)postnews.usg 2.? 2/21/84'
: define your news lib directory
_NEWSLIB=/usenet/lib
if test $# -gt 1 ; then
/bin/echo "$0: Too many args"
exit 1
fi
if test $# -eq 1 -a ! -r "$1" ; then
/bin/echo "$0: Can't read $1"
exit 1
fi
/bin/echo "Subject: " \\c
read title
/bin/echo "Newsgroups (general): " \\c
read ng
if test x$ng = x ; then
ng=general
fi
: play recorded message
if test -s ${_NEWSLIB}/recording
cat -s `cat -s ${_NEWSLIB}/recording|grep $ng|sed "s/^.* //"` /dev/null
_tmp=`echo $ng |sed "s/\..*//"`
cat -s `cat -s ${_NEWSLIB}/recording|grep ${_tmp}.all|sed "s/^.* //"` /dev/null
fi
/bin/echo "Distribution ($ng): " \\c
read dist
if test x$dist = x; then
dist=$ng
fi
t=/tmp/pn$$
case $# in
0)
trap "sleep 1; cp $t $HOME/dead.article ; /bin/echo saved in $HOME/dead.article ; rm -f $t; exit" 1
trap "" 2
/bin/echo "Subject: $title" > $t
/bin/echo "Newsgroups: $ng" >> $t
if test $dist != $ng; then
/bin/echo "Distribution: $dist" >> $t
fi
${EDITOR:-vi} $t
cd /tmp
if inews -h <$t
then
:
else
if cat $t >>$HOME/dead.article
then
/bin/echo Article saved in $HOME/dead.article
fi
fi
;;
1)
cp $1 $t
cd /tmp
inews -t "$title" -n $ng < $t &
;;
esac